The Profound Vault Realm: a cultivation world of rigid hierarchies, monopolized resources, and survival of the fittest taken to the extreme. The great immortal sects, cultivation clans, and demon beast lords sit atop the pyramid, treating low-level cultivators and mortals as ants, provisions, and mine slaves.
Ye Hai transmigrates into this world only to witness his family slaughtered by a mysterious force. Every last one of them is gone, and he watches his loved ones die horribly. His overwhelming hatred and despair draw in an invading heart demon from beyond the realm. On the verge of mental collapse, the extreme will to survive that he forged as an orphan in his previous life erupts. He devours and fuses with the heart demon, becoming a unique symbiotic will.
The world descends into an era of blood-soaked warring states. The deeper the oppression, the more fierce the resistance.